Considered one of the finest actors of his generation, James Franco is also a multitalented writer and visual artist. Drawing from his experience in film and television work, Franco has produced a visually exciting and thought-provoking body of video works, multimedia installations, and large-scale [...]

The actors in James Franco's brilliant debut novel include a McDonald's drive-thru operator who spends his shift trying on accents; an ex-child star recalling a massive beachside bacchanal; hospital volunteers and Midwestern transplants; a vampire flick starlet who discovers a cryptic book written b[...]

A powerful new translation of Nobel Prize winner Hermann Hesse's masterpiece of youthful rebellion--with a foreword by James Franco A young man awakens to selfhood and to a world of possibilities beyond the conventions of his upbringing in Nobel Prize winner Hermann Hesse's beloved novel "Demian." E[...]

Though the main character, Herbert White is a necrophiliac, and a killer, the poem - and the film - are an expression of life's isolation and loneliness. A poem became a film. In this book, the author uses poems to express what he feels about film: about acting; and about the actors he admires - Jam[...]

James Franco has to be one of America s most talented male celebrities at the moment. You name it, he has done it. Although Franco is best known for his leading roles in Hollywood cinema and his selfie game, his versatility does not stop there. James is also a successful director, screenwriter, prod[...]

A fiercely vivid collection of stories about troubled California teenagers and misfits--violent and harrowing, from the astonishingly talented actor and artist James Franco.
"Palo Alto" is the debut of a surprising and powerful new literary voice. Written with an immediate sense of place--claust[...]

Now a "provocative" and "impressive" ("Variety") film from director Gia Coppola (Francis Ford Coppola's granddaughter)--starring Emma Roberts, James Franco, Nat Wolff, and Val Kilmer--the fiction debut from James Franco that "Vogue" called "compelling and gutsy." James Franco's story collection trac[...]

An actor treads the line between reality and fiction every time he plays a part, and for James Franco, that exploration isn't limited to the screen--he's also a visual artist with several exhibitions under his belt as well as the author of the widely praised story collection "Palo Alto." In "A Calif[...]